1 year back in the game

 I'm actually 12 days late in this. I picked up 5 days Omega time recently and I think there were 1 or 2 other instances of free PLEX over the year so I've only just had to re-PLEX today. I thought it'd be a good opportunity to assess where I am and what I've achieved in the last year. With that in mind here's my current trade position:

This compares to Last year's position where I had 778Bn ISK after PLEXing for a year. Today I have 976Bn ISK so that works out at 198Bn over the last year or an average of 16.5Bn ISK/month.

That's...actually not great. And wait, wasn't I a Trillionaire yesterday? what the hell happened???

Well, err...

Now, this might not look like it should have much effect on my net worth. And actually the impact was a bit less than I expected, but still dramatic. The NES sale meant that people liquidated everything to buy PLEX to convert to skill extractors, causing HyperCores to drop at one point to 250k..! (since recovered a bit) and send PLEX soaring to currently 6.7mil from 6mil yesterday. I bought my PLEX a while ago at 6 mil so I should have been quids in but I spent it on PLEXing my accounts. Still saved a fortune on that, even if 86Bn in one go is pretty painful.

I have 5 LSI's which dropped to 790mil but that's only a 5-6Bn loss in isolation. HyperCores account for another 13Bn or so in losses today.

I did recently buy 30 Skill Extractors during the cash sale and sell them a few days ago for ~5% profit after tax which was nice. And I've decided to spend 30Bn on 75 now with an eye to hopefully making 10% or so over the next few months.

All this does go to show the sheer volatility and unpredictability of investing in PLEX and PLEX adjacant items. You are completely at the whims of CCPs marketing team. I will probably keep dipping my toes in here knowing me, but I want to get to 1Tn of normal sell orders and then start investing in in game items more, like salvage.

All this doesn't give a full accounting of my operating profits either. If I add in the amount spent PLEXing my accounts (86Bn) and PLEXing my industry accounts (58Bn) I'd have a current position of 1.12Tn, which works out to 342Bn over the year or 28.5Bn/month. That's much more healthy and reflective of what buying in Jita and selling in Amarr/Dodixie/Rens/Hek has done for me. I'd love to achieve that again this year. Time will tell.

In September I also started my Industry challenge, starting from zero on a new character and seeing how I get on. Currently on 10.5Bn and loving the change of pace. Though one thing I was going to make a post about today that has now become a foot note is that Zydrine has exploded in price. Now up from 2,500 a few days ago to 3750 in Jita. I have no idea why this is and no-one appears to be discussing it. This has made mobile depots (for one) completely unprofitable. I'd love to get an idea why this is and if it's an isolated thing or a disturbing trend. I can't think of anything in the Capsuleer day event that would cause this but maybe I'm wrong. Suggestions in the comments if you've any idea please!